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Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/2/530, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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<530r>

Whereas upon the Votes & Address of our Commons in Parliament assembled, We did by Warrant under our signe manual dated May 10^th last past, authorise & command the Warden Master & Comptroller of our Mint in the Tower of London to take & receive from all persons & bodies politick or corporate all such wrought plate as they or any of them should bring to our said Mint, of the kinds & standards mentioned in the said votes, & to give such receipts for the same as were desired in the said Address of our Commons & forthwith to cause the same to be melted down & assayed, & that you the Master & Worker of our said Mint should immediately coin the same into shillings & sixpences & pay the moneys produced into the receipt of our Exchequer & take Tallys for your discharge; And whereas in the Act of Parliament for contributing a summ not exceed two millions, entituled An Act for licencing Hackney Coaches &c, it is enacted that all & every the Receipts given for the plate brought into the said Mint before the 15^th day of May 1711 shall be accepted & taken as so much money for contributions upon the said Act, but no provision is made for accepting the Receipts dated on or after the said 15^th day of May: Now that our loving subjects may not want the use of both the Receipts & the new moneys coined out of their plate Our will & pleasure is & we do hereby authorize & command you the said Master & Worker of our Mint forthwith to pay unto each of the Importers of Plate whose Receipts are dated on or after the said 15^th day of May, after the rate of five shillings per ounce of plate imported; any thing in our former Warrant to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. And for so doing this shall be your Warrant.